Basically it boils down to the rights of a work group that is protected by the RLA, while that company is in BK proceedings. Which takes precedence? The judge gave several opportunities to ALPA's atty, to show which part of the RLA covers this kind of situation. Unfortunately, our atty did not have anything on his side. He unfortunately did not do all that great in the court room during the last hearing. He did get interrupted by the judge quite a bit, whether or not that played a part in the outcome???

BK proceeding are there to help the creditors, and that is where the judge's alliance is usually going to fall barring some gross miscaluculation by the company and creditors committee.

As a side note, Comair has not imposed their terms! They received a new proposal from ALPA yesterday afternoon and need time to review. The new deadline is Monday at 2359.